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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis Parking Lot Is Paved With Solar Panels
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I keep thinking about how far ahead we would be on this stuff if Carter's initiatives hadn't been killed by the dumbfuckpublicans
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This Parking Lot Is Paved With Solar Panels (Original Post)
ashling
May 2014
OP
Here's an earlier thread from the E&E Group. Putting the panels on roofs and walls makes way
Electric Monk
May 2014
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Revanchist
(1,375 posts)1. Got a link so I can read more about it?
herding cats
(19,564 posts)4. Here ya go
From Wired. http://www.wired.com/2014/05/solar-road/
liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)2. I would love to see more information on this
A link.
I have been trying to get the building manager at our company to cover the parking lot with solar panels.
Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)5. Here's an earlier thread from the E&E Group. Putting the panels on roofs and walls makes way
more sense to me than putting them on roads and parking lots where they'll suffer much more wear and tear.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/112768961
liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)6. This is what I am lobbing for
Covered parking doubling as solar panels.
Then you work to get more employees to drive plug in hybrids.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)3. And it even comes with a dual armrest, apparently
mopinko
(70,112 posts)7. correction- jimmy carters "disgrace"
was engineered by the saudis.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)8. what happens when someone does a burnout on it?